US Patent Issued to YACHIYO INDUSTRY on Dec. 23 for "Roof module for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,939, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to YACHIYO INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Sakura, Japan).

"Roof module for vehicle" was invented by Moto Kikuchi (Sakura, Japan) and Hirotaka Kamioka (Sakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof module includes: a roof panel; a pair of guide rails mounted on an inner surface of the roof panel and extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; a shade sheet guided by the guide rails; a winding device supported by the guide rails and configured to wind up the shade sheet and a drive source configured to drive the shade sheet in an unwinding direction and a winding direction. The winding device and ...